When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. … They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Of course, there's also the president's proposed border wall and his comments about a Mexican-American judge.

Then there's the fact that Trump has positioned himself as a president prepared to take a much more aggressive stance to immigration than his predecessors.

So the idea that the Trump administration would acknowledge host a Cinco de Mayo celebration — which, as Politico noted, has been used by past presidents as an opportunity to celebrate ties with Mexico — was bound to be an awkward one.